Recent content by BrotherRool

The weird thing about the "anyone can start a project and get other people interested" is that no-one ever has. Or at least there has never been a case where an employer at Valve had an exciting idea for a new IP (since Half-Life 1) and got everyone else excited and made that game. Check...

This pretty much is exactly what I expected from the game. Many years in the future I'll pick it up to see the graphics and the world building, but not until the price drops through the floor. It'll be my Folklore or Heavenly Sword (but probably not as good)

But that's also only a problem if you expect it to be a perfect system. Metacritic is great if you just accept that its a rough tool to be used with intelligence. Take this usage: "Lets go see a film. What shall I watch? Well I've never heard of Seventh Son, and it's got a 31 rating on...

Too true, apparently when sites remove review scores there's often a noticeable drop off in traffic to their reviews. And if they're willing to stop looking at a review altogether because of changes to the score, then the chances of convincing people to treat review scores in a more sane and...

I don't see the problem with review scores. They're just very rough approximations of how positive the reviewer feels toward whatever they're reviewing. It's only ever an issue when people expect the system to be perfect. I can give a book a 4 out of 5 because I think it's really good but...

See I'm actually in the opposite boat. A laptop is like 100x more useful to me than a PC, but the only time a laptop can play decent modern games is at the end of a very long and successful console cycle (so right now). If I wanted to game on a PC I would either have to own a laptop and a...

That's moving the goalposts :P Someones already done that before in this thread 'Oh crud all our initial predictions were wrong, quick we were talking about AAA game releases right? And ignoring that the PC hasn't had any decent AAA releases in that time either' But I'm happy with that...

I'm not sure they'll have the best market share of all-time though. And it's just the 360 had a big lead on the PS3, but the PS3 clawed it back. But if the PS4 had an even bigger lead then they can start making it harder to come back. Suddenly its worth a lot less for developers to sign...

We can firmly say that the people who thought this generation would flop are wrong :) Arstechnica did a report on worldwide sales and noted that even during the christmas period the PS4 sold more consoles than the Xbox One worldwide, it's just the gap wasn't quite so big as it's been every...

Outstanding achievement in Animation, Story and _Character_ for Shadow of Mordor?? They seriously won an award for "They killed my family in the tutorial and now I'm angry" as their driving character motivation? And it also won them an award? And they literally just copied most of their...

Quoted, good writing?

Thanks for the classy reply in spite of my accusation :)

Congrats on getting the job, I like your vision and I hope you'll be awesome. But whilst I love the aim for optimism, I'm going to be pessimistic just for a second Is spin. Using 'ramp' to make things sound like they're increasing is smart. But the truth is Defy Media decided to cut...

So the student of a professor who was partially shunned from the scientific community for taking funding from big oil companies writes an article about how there should be way more doubt that humans have anything to do with global warming (instead of 'wasting' valuable funding on finding...

I didn't really find the joke that funny? Because the whole thing about that plotline is how you should value decency and honour above wealth and personal gain, so it's established that the gem is his and heck, the way people keep talking about contracts and 'rights' and '13th shares' is meant...